In the 103rd year of the Star Dome Calendar, the portholes of the Forgefire Embryo Starship were sliced into countless diamonds by the dark silver glow of gears. A gear-jamming, mechanical dissonance emanated from the bee-patterned star core in Chen Feng’s palm. Outside the porthole, at the edge of the Mirror Universe, the "Forgefire Symbiotic Gear River" was undergoing catastrophic corrosion. The star core furnace, woven from antimatter gears and symbiotic water ripples, was shrouded in twelve scarlet mists of "Entropy Annihilation." Each mist fed upon the symbiotic water ripples on the gear surfaces. The "Gear Symbiotic Hub" at the core emitted a dying grinding sound, and the water-ripple lubricant between the gears was evaporating into harsh white smoke.
"Chen Feng! The gear river’s symbiotic lubrication index has dropped to zero," Su Yuhan said, her monitor displaying a gear-set model representing the mesh integrity as it disintegrated. "The Entropy Annihilation mist is decomposing the water-ripple Forging-Pattern. The Mirror Abyss Clan’s gear symbiotes... are degrading into pure antimatter gears!" The tactical screen was suddenly stained with the color of rust. "The 'symbiotic gear shaft' at the hub core... is being rewritten into anti-symbiotic corrosion gears!"
Liu Ruyan’s transmission was torn apart by the sound of grinding gears. The manifesting Mirror Abyss Clan engineer, Lun Lan, whose body was composed of translucent gears, stuttered like a rusted machine: "The …
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